A questionnaire about frailty should be in alignment with experiences of frail elderly themselves as a target population is an important source of knowledge in content validation.
Confined within bodies too frail to help themselves, people are denied assistance from doctors to end their lives peacefully.
Nursing homes that have tested the use of feeding assistants typically train and include their non-nursing staff, too, so that, at busy meal times, it's all hands on deck to help residents too frail to feed themselves.
Then a horrific realisation dawned: the pipes were intravenous lines, the victims hospital patients dragged from their wards still plugged into their medication, too weak to need restraint, too frail to defend themselves.
With enhanced longevity, many people in late old age find themselves frail and living at home, often alone.
Their subjects range from the incredible data-bubble system of Hans Rosling to Elizabeth Gilbert's fine idea that we need to get back to artists having a genius on-call, (as in a working muse), instead of calling frail humans "geniuses" themselves.
The government's announcement this week of its plans to promote insurance schemes to help finance care for those who are too frail to look after themselves (see page) is, arguably, a logical consequence of privatising a once publicly funded service.
People who cash in their pensions in order to save or invest the money risk losing their right to free social care if they fall ill or become too frail to look after themselves, leading charities have warned.
Many hijras, to compensate for being ostracized from mainstream society, have organized themselves into surrogate hierarchal families that give their lives structure and ensure that the older hijras have someone to take care of them when they are too frail to fend for themselves.
